Scandal continues to deepen as new NSA Spying revelations about PRISM program released by Snowden

Dark arts, black hats

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“WE WANT you to help us do this better,” asserted General Keith Alexander (pictured), the director of America’s National Security Agency (NSA), to hundreds of computer hackers at Black Hat, an annual information-security conference in Las Vegas.